the way ppl have designated cuddling as a purely romantic thing and is weird outside of that context has done widespread damage to our pack animal nature
this current wave of mid 2010s nostalgia is so laughable. yeah dude we need to retvrn to the days when closer by the chainsmokers was the biggest song in the world and we were all drinking “unicorn flavored” milkshakes
[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying
“fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug”]
I don’t know of the original poster might not be aware
but!
if you’ve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public
it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)
ALSO :
you don’t need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that you’ve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.
Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:
This thing has been out of print for like, 26 years and some of us want to make chubby classic pikachu so uh… I figure it’s okay to share bc it’s kinda hard to get your hands on the remaining physical copies.
Bonus points: Aelith made some embroidery/applique files for it too
Did you know I have a Patreon? It’s pretty cool, you should check it out!
See kids, this is why we don’t do our video editing in a rush while travelling 🤦 although it tickles me that my phone thought that was a more likely thing to say than “pratting”
“Are [two characters who were raised in the same traumatizing social group and continue to work together after it all falls apart] adopted siblings, or are they dating?”
What if I told you that some relationships exist outside the dichotomy of “nuclear family dynamics” and “romantic relationship meant to eventually create a nuclear family dynamic”?
I don’t think people know what “nuclear family dynamics” means.
Thinking about when one of the reporters who helped report the original podcast exposing Neil Gaiman put out a vague piece about how she never wanted a “blanket cancellation” of him and that wasn’t her goal without really saying what her goal was. Like it was written in such a weaselly way you knew something else was going on
And then it turned out every other thing she’s written was uh. Different:
Whining about how “woke” sexual harassment policies ruined office Christmas parties
Defiantly saying that she stands with male celebs accused of sexual harassment
Publishing the exact same Christmas party whining in 2025. She does this every year
Boris Johnson’s sister: “I’m only joining the quest to expose Neil Gaiman in the hope the woke lefties rally around him and defend him! Just like we do to our men!”
Woke Lefties: “Wow, what a monster! We’ll drop him immediately.”
Boris Johnson’s sister: “I didn’t…I didn’t want…not being able to harass secretaries is ruining the office Christmas party, innit?”
Very much doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Unfortunately, part of her motivation was because he defended and supported trans people.
I’m glad she did the expose, and there’s something darkly fascinating about how it failed to do what she wanted it to do (give fuel to the people peddling the “trans people and their allies are rapists” myth) because people on the left acted appropriately, disowning him and listening to his victims.
Yeah, I found an interview with her where she says “It looks like he’s been canceled, and how do I not feel kind of responsible for that? I’ve got to say, I’m uncomfortable with #metooing people. Is that all right to say? I don’t believe in cancel culture. We all do bad stuff and we all do good stuff and he’s done good stuff and he’s done bad stuff and he is now regarded as an evil monster” and says she imagined nothing would happen to him because he “works for the refugee council”. She also keeps referencing how the New York piece was too “black and white”
This weird situation of someone exposing an abuser, then being mad she “failed” bc people took her expose seriously. Doing something good for terrible reasons and then being disappointed when something good happens anyway
This is good to know, because when the allegations first started circulating, there was a TERFy feel to all of it, so trans folks hesitated to accept the narrative, which naturally the radfems jumped on as “proof” that trans people are pro-predator.
13th November 2022
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Reblogged From ixa193
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